Jim James Quotes

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

The internet's completely over.

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it.

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.

You can’t blame the message on the medium, not exactly. But maybe, all things considered, arming everyone with pocket supercomputers, and then filtering most of human experience through social-media feedback loops, wasn’t the greatest idea…however glorious modern communications may be, they’ve also empowered a cast of goons, crooks and jihadists to build audiences and influence world-wide.

You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.

The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

I'm a little bit nervous for us with all of this electronically generated new hyper-space that we've moved into, where not only people but also economies and systems, like banking, are left to zeros and ones. I want to be more than a zero or one.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it.

If you put something online, it's essentially there forever. You don't know who's kept it, who's screenshotted it.

It's hard to surprise people with everything leaking on the Internet.

The argument about the need to regulate the digital space has to be weighed against freedom of expression in our society, whether we are interacting in a virtual world or in the real world where we have the growth of so-called 'safe spaces.'

Social media is not a safe space.

Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone.